Tremendous accident in the night on the outskirts of Sassari. A man, Antonello Sotgiu, 75 years old from Sassari, died in hospital from injuries sustained after the car in which he was traveling collided with an SUV and went off the road.

A Volkswagen Golf, driven by Sotgiu's wife, Marcella Piras, well known in the city as administrator of the "Report Sassari" site, proceeded towards the center after exiting the San Camillo hospital, when the car collided with an SUV that it left the secondary road of Via Devilla to merge onto the Sassari-Sorso.

The frontal impact, particularly violent, resulted in two injuries, husband and wife, both transported in red code to the Santissima Annunziata civil hospital.

The man, however, hospitalized in intensive care, did not make it, he died shortly before midnight. The local police intervened on the spot.

An investigation has been opened on the case. The prosecutor Lara Senatore proceeds for manslaughter.

The friends of the Facebook page "Sassari Si Moglie" published a post: "Today is a sad day for our page and for the Sassari SI Muovas Association, this is one of those posts that we would never want to write but fate decides otherwise . Yesterday following a car accident in which our Marcella, moderator of the page and vice president of the Association was involved, her husband Antonello lost his life. We have no further information on this and Marcella herself we know is hospitalized. We do not close the page because we want to give everyone the opportunity to leave a thought but we ask not to insert new posts, or interactions with previous ones, in respect of the pain that we are all experiencing ".

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